Poulson in the 21st Century

 
Here's four pics of Elizabeth House, Waterloo, designed by the practice of John Poulson and opened in the 1960s initially as one of the South Bank extensions to Whitehall. Poulson would later be sent to prison as being at the centre of the most spectacular network of bribery and corruption, one which brought down the Home Secretary, Reginald Maudling, and 'Mr Newcastle' T. Dan Smith. 

Despite all that I've always rather liked Elizabeth House, the tower and two slab blocks have a simple elegance (if you ignore the tangled mess next to Waterloo Station itself) one that has been slowly eroded by chunks of render falling from the facade of the office tower. It's soon to be demolished to make way for an even more controversial development, David Chipperfield's 29 storey tower.